Outstanding Dissertations Competition Winners

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1 Outstanding Dissertations Competition Winners st Place Sofia Bahena Education Associate The Hope of Immigrant Optimism: Examining Immigrant Optimism Among Latino Youth Using the Children s Hope Scale Intercultural Development Research Association Harvard University 2 nd Place Marissa Vasquez Urias Adjunct Faculty Predictors of Sense of Belonging among Latino men in Community College Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education San Diego State University San Diego State University Jerry Flores Faculty Member Social Work University of Washington-Tacoma Caught Up: Girls, Violence and Wraparound Incarceration University of California, Santa Barbara

2 st Place Carla Pezzia Sober Self: Discourse and Identity of Recovering Alcoholics in the Western Highlands of Guatemala Human Sciences University of Dallas The University of Texas at San Antonio 2 nd Place Lucy Arellano Capitalizing baccalaureate degree attainment: Revealing the path of the Latina/o scholar College of Education Oregon State University University of California, Los Angeles Wilfredo Del Pilar Director of Development Educational Equity The Pennsylvania State University Undocumented Students: Understanding the Context for Postsecondary Access Penn State University

3 st Place Marcela Cuellar Latina/o Student Success in Higher Education: Models of Empowerment at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Emerging HSIs, and Non-HSIs School of Education University of California, Davis University of California, Los Angeles 2 nd Place Maria Cristina Cruza-Guet Lecturer in Psychiatry A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship between Social Support and Psychological Distress among Hispanic Elders in Miami, FL Department of Psychology Yale University Lehigh University 2 nd Place Nelson Flores From Nation-States to Neoliberalism: Language Ideologies and Governmentality Graduate School of Education University of Pennsylvania City University of New York, Graduate Center 3 rd Place Priscila Diaz Department of Psychology Azusa Pacific University Perceived Group Discrimination and Problem Behavior: The Moderating Role of Traditional Cultural Values and Familiar Relationships in Mexican American Adolescents Arizona State University

4 2012 1st Place Kristine Molina Department of Psychology University of Illinois at Chicago A Multiple-Group Path Analysis of the Role of Social Marginality on Self-related Physical Health among U.S. Latina/o Adults: An Interectional Perspective University of Miami 2 nd Place Armando Ibarra Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: Mexican Families and Migrant Work in California Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Wisconsin Carmen Martinez Calderon Education Programs Consultant Department of Education University of California, Berkeley Out of the Shadows: An Inquiry into the Lives of Undocumented Latino AB540 Students University of California, Berkeley Lindsay Perez Huber Social and Cultural Analysis of Education California State University, Long Beach Sueños Indocumentados: Using LatCrit to Explore the Testimonios of Undocumented and U.S. born Chicana College Students on Discourses of Racist Nativism in Education University of California, Los Angeles

5 2011 1st Place Rocio Magana Department of Anthropology Rutgers University Bodies on the Line: Life, Death, and Authority on the Arizona-Mexico Border University of Chicago 2nd Place Edris Montalvo Department of Geography Cameron University The Recruitment and Retention of Hispanic and African-American Undergraduate Students in Public Universities in the U.S., Texas State University, San Marcos Alisia Caban Senior Staff Therapist Counseling Center University of Oregon So Far From "Home:" Portraits of Mexican- Origin Scholarship Boys University of Texas, Austin Sophia Jordan Wallace Political Science Department Rutgers University Beyond Roll Call Votes: Latino Representation in the 108th - 110th Sessions of the U.S. House of Representatives Cornell University

6 2010 1st Place Theresa Segura Herrera MACP Department An Examination of Psychological Wellbeing for Latinas Chicago School of Professional Psychology Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago 2nd Place Maria Martiniello Associate Research Scientist ETS Center for Validity Research Stanford University Linguistic Complexity and Differential Item Functioning (DIF) for English Language Learners (ELL) in Math Word Problems Harvard University Ryan Alcantara Part-time Faculty Higher Education Administration University of Southern California A Learning Model of Policy Making Implementation, Implementing Technology in Response to Policy Requirements California State University, Fullerton

7 st Place Lourdes Najera Department of Anthropology Dartmouth College Yalálag is no longer Just Yalálag: Circulating Conflict and Contesting Community in a Zapotec Transnational Circuit Stanford University 2 nd Place Sandra Larios Staff Psychologist Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco Using the Social Ecological Model to understand the contextual factors associated with HIV risk in commercial sex workers at high risk for contracting HIV University of California, San Diego 3 rd Place Adriana Lopez Research Associate Markov Models for Longitudinal Course of Youth Bipolar Disorder Department of Statistics Carnegie Mellon University University of Pittsburg 3 rd Place Tiffany Schiffner Psychology Resident "I'm just a guy! Mexican American college students' constructions of masculity and sexual health beliefs Counseling Psychological Services Duke University University of Illinois at Ubrana-Champaign 2008

8 1 st Place Patricia Perez Associate Professor Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies California State University, Fullerton Social Capital and Chain Migration: The College Choice Process of Chicana and Chicano Community College, Transfer and University Students University of California, Los Angeles 2 nd Place Angela Caballero De Cordero Dean Self-Efficacy Perceptions and their Impact on Latino and White Community College Student Persistence Department of Counseling & Matriculation De Anza College University of California, Santa Barbara Jason Casellas Associate Professor Department of Political Science University of Houston Latino Representation in Congress and State Lectures Princeton University